Burt Reynolds Quotes
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'
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'I bound her to me in all soft ways,I bound her to me in a net of days,Yet now she has gone in silence and said no word.How can we face these dazzling things, I ask you?There is no use: we cry: and are not heard.
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A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it, you can bring it out to everyone else, and that's the most honest and vulnerable thing you can do.
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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Charles B. Rangel -
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
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Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.
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I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
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Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.
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I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.
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I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.
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I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.
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You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.
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Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.